[Obi-Wan regains consciousness while hanging precariously inside an elevator shaft underneath Anakin] Anakin Skywalker: Easy! We're in a bit of a situation. Obi-Wan Kenobi: Did I miss something? Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
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12.30.2008My blog-love affair with cartoonist Doug Savage’s terrific daily Savage Chickens (find a random strip here) continues unabated and - grievously - unrequited. Here’s another recent great one: (0)
12.18.2008Not much to add here, just: happy holidays, everybody! lotsa lolcats here (0)
12.13.2008It should be expected that Nicolas Cage will bring some kind of quirk, oddball accent, or zany physical attribute to each movie character that he plays. And now that I’ve seen the trailer for his upcoming supernatural thriller Knowing, I feel pretty sure that this movie’s whimsical peculiarity is found in the following screengrab, because clearly Cage has decided to become action/thriller cinema’s first Polish great-grandma. (2)
12.11.2008Well, that’s too bad. Back a year or so ago when I heard that they’d be making a movie out of Judi and Ron Barrett’s terrific kids’ book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, I hoped maybe it’d be made live-action. Handled well, the idea of seeing an actual town where it rained hotdogs and baked beans in an open-roof restaurant, as well as the bit where sanitation trucks clean up all the leftover rain/snow/food and feed it to the pets would be, I thought, a bundle of CG-imbued cinema fun. According to Film School Rejects, however, this great book - one of my boys’ favorites - is simply being made into yet another animated feature destined to be lost in a sea of blah-ocrity. (1)